Other barn shots

If you couldn't tell we are just a tad excited about the barn...just a few more pics to give the full picture.

This is from the back...the stall doors open out to the paddock...they will have seperate little yard areas.

And then, this is the front of the barn. The wash bay will be just out front and all that garbage will be cleaned up!

Hugh has been a very busy farmer indeed! (especially all his handiwork with the grass/seeding, irrigating, etc!!!!!!!!!!)

Introducing the full cast of characters

No farm is complete without da ani-mules...so in no particular order here are recent shots from Saturday.

Donnie & Laurella are enjoying VIP grazing on the front lawn while the paddocks continue to fill in. I think he's saying "eh..what you lookin' at?"
While, Laurella is just trying to figure out how she can eat the camera.
In the back we've got the boys and girls....

That's Leroy Brown and Primrose - the brown ones
And...all the "white crowd" of Pablo (moved out of frame) Escobelle, Sorpresa, Barosa and of course Ray Charles!

Inside the new barn

And, here is inside the new barn. As you can see we have one very lovely horse....he smells a bit and he might bite if you get too close...but as long as we keep him locked in there he does just fine.


We also have these neat feeder things. The one on the Right (i think) is a feeder that has been spun around..you dump in the feed and then spin it back around into the stall. This feature is nice so that junior horse handlers don't get pounced on when feeding..and our guys get very excited at dinner time.

We might stain the outside wood with something non-toxic. Haven't decided what colour yet...and then we will hang up those harness things from Hideaway! (Thanks Beth! ;)

And the arena!

I haven't figured out yet that if I want to tell a story in a certain sequence that I need to tell it backwards...so this is supposed to come next, but whatever.

Here are some pics of the arena! Very exciting...beautiful sand surface - perfect in any weather...not that it rains much, but more of a concern is that the ground gets so hard here. Also we've got lights, so finally I can ride after work...and Hugh can also just go out there at night and dance around. I thought Donnie might be afraid of his shadow at first, but he is fine. The lights are up on that telephone pole. This view is looking down from the new barn.

In the other photo you can see the view from the arena back up to the barn...they had to cut thru all that rock...its amazing we have any teeth left with all that pounding (and the poor neighbors...it went on forever, i think people thought we were building some new cross city tunnel or something.)

Its awesome to ride in!

Da-da-dah!! The barn!

Well I finally found the blog address of the blog that we started a few months ago. Still getting the hang of this, so please be patient.

Here are some recent pics of da farm...as you can see Farmer Bloch has been hard at work (they call it "hard yakka" in these parts)

First - da-da-dah! the barn! With the amount of time it actually took to get this thing finished you'd think we had re-comissioned the frescos for the Sistine Chapel, instead of just asking for a simple four-sided building and a concrete slab...

The colour scheme is to match the house. This is the back of the barn...and I think Hugh is pretending he is a horse or something..?